Finally, someone out there is brave enough to talk about our nation’s ongoing epidemic of irresponsible heart transplants where the heart turns evil and takes over its recipient: Netflix announced today that it’s casting Uma Thurman as one of the leads in its upcoming supernatural drama Chambers, which sounds like…
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran a story that observers had been awaiting ever since her terse, righteously angry statement when she was asked about sexual misconduct on the red carpet back in November: The full story of why Uma Thurman burns with white-hot rage when she hears the name “Harvey Weinstein.” In…
After hinting, on multiple occasions, toward her own Harvey Weinstein story in the months since allegations against the prolific producer first came to light, Uma Thurman has now come forward with allegations of sexual assault against the former Weinstein Company head. Thurman opened up about her experiences with…
Earlier this month, a clip began circulating of Uma Thurman refusing to offer a “tidy soundbite” to Access Hollywood about the sudden movement to expose sexual misconduct in Hollywood. “I have learned that when I’ve spoken in anger I usually regret the way I express myself,” Thurman said, “So I’ve been waiting to…
Over the weekend you may have come across this response from Uma Thurman, when asked by Access Hollywood about sexual misconduct in Hollywood:
Quentin Tarantino loves action movies. Quentin Tarantino’s characters love action movies. The history of action cinema, especially the history of cheap ’70s exploitation action cinema, is threaded through Tarantino’s entire filmography. It’s there in the way his camera quotes old scenes, in the way his characters…
TV programming is extremely cyclical, having the tendency to feed off of itself. Family sitcoms, cop shows, or medical dramas all seem to flood the airwaves for a while, then recede. Right now, there is an astonishing number of time-travel shows on TV, and coming up right behind that genre is the con-artist show. So…
Variety is reporting that Uma Thurman has signed on for a recurring guest role on Bravo’s new scripted drama My So Called Wife. The Academy Award-nominated actress will play Lenny Cohen, a “lethal fixer” who can do anything from “eliminating an enemy” to “whipping up a world class omelette.” Presumably, Thurman’s…
Quentin Tarantino’s sprawling, two-film revenge saga Kill Bill is told, like many of this director’s stories, out of chronological order. That means that the first big fight sequence of Vol. 1 is the one between Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox), a.k.a. Copperhead, and Beatrix “The Bride” Kiddo (Uma Thurman), a.k.a. Black…
According to a report in Variety, Uma Thurman, Captain Phillips’ Barkhad Abdi, and Little White Lies’s Laurent Lafitte have been cast in Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi’s upcoming feature, The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir. They join Bollywood star Dhanush—who will be making his Hollywood debut in the film—…
For a movie with an allusion to another country right there in the title, the cast of the upcoming jewel heist flick The Brits Are Coming has been looking distinctly Yankee-centric. So far, the only cast members announced for the broad comedy has been star Uma Thurman, who’s playing a British thief who’s forced to…
Uma Thurman has landed a lead role in heist comedy The Brits Are Coming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the film, she’ll play half of a loutish British couple who relocate to Los Angeles to pull off an elaborate jewel theft. Thurman’s character, Harriet Fox, originally flees to L.A. with her husband Peter to…
Seven years ago, Liam Neeson appeared in the surprise smash Taken, defying all conventional wisdom about the average age of action stars and the career trajectories of “serious” actors. Though there was some precedent for this casting—Neeson had appeared in blockbusters before, usually as a mentor figure, and had…
The Slap is a ridiculous title for an even more ridiculous-sounding premise. However, the original Australian miniseries (itself based on the Christos Tsiolkas novel) is one of the more affecting pieces of character-driven TV from the last five years. The story’s general premise undersells the show’s uniqueness and…
How do they do it? How do the heroines of action movies do all that leaping, running, kicking, karate chopping, and occasional decapitating while maintaining those luxuriously long locks of theirs without the use of the humble yet useful scrunchie? This is an issue which may not have occurred to the men watching these…
